Sorry if there's already a similar thread.
Everytime I put a newish title in my Lovefilm list, I never get it sent to me. For example, Deus Ex HR was on my list for nearly 2 months and I was never sent it. In the end I just bought the thing (regrettably)
So, I fancy a bit of Forza 4 action as my mate just bought it and wants us to take it online this weekend. So I added it to my list two days ago and suprise suprise they're sending me something else from the list rather than Forza.
Is it actually possible to rent a game which isn't 4 years old? Because I pay £20 a month for the top service (4 rentals at a time which you can keep as long as you want) but don't feel that I ever get recently released titles.
Renting games from Lovefilm
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Can you not prioritise like you can with films?
I pay for the £5.99 service and get games on release day.
I'm a pretentious fraud. My taste isn't my own. In the pursuit of cool and identity I do what the magazines tell me.
I got Sonic Generations recently which was a nice surprise as my rental list is about 40 strong just now. I had made it high priority recently though if that helps?
The problem is having a list. Don't have a list, have only the game you want and make it high priority. Are you fucking stupid?
I'm a pretentious fraud. My taste isn't my own. In the pursuit of cool and identity I do what the magazines tell me.
But I don't use Lovefilm that way Lawro. Plenty of films and games on the list and what turns up is a handy lottery to chuck back in the post once everyone has run it through a dvd/games machine as required.
Sonic was the first of the games that I've got on my list that has come through. Seen plenty of decent movies recently too. Seems a bit of a waste to use it purely as a games rental service given the content available.
This is why i stopped using love film, the point of a list or queue to me is they come in the order i've selected, not in the order some picker decides.
I can very much see how it could piss folks right off but for me it (currently) seems ok. SO or I go through surge of rummaging through their lists and add a few new titles every once in a while and then forget all about it. The films and games keep turning up though the letterbox in the mean time and get used as and when. The lottery feature seems to work quite well for us.
It'll be better once the Americans sort their sodding legal system out and all of the online distribution deals get thrashed out. Online delivery for films and TV shows via Xbox is by far the best system for us and our London strength unlimited broadband connection. It'll be years before any movement on that though so for now it'll be postie lottery time.
Yep. I purposely selected High Priorty for Forza and put the other stuff in the list down to Low Priorty.
Yet they are sending me a Low Priorty BluRay (I haven't got any other games in my lists, just films, documentaries and tv series) which probably means Forza is lent out to other people.
I wonder how many copies of each big title game they have?
Do you have seperate lists for Games and DVDs?
I used to have games and films on a three Title Package and split it so I got 2 films and a game, i'd swap through the films quickly and keep the game for longer.
Now i just have all three disks on films because fuck games.
If Oli polls up he used to have a technique for ensuring new release rental, making a new list with one title on high and having one disk attatched to it I beleve, he's got all the details.
I've only been a member for a few months and I've been on a payment holdiday since before Christmas which ended on Monday, but I've had Ico/SoTC, CoE, Rage and others I can't remember, all either during their first week of release or the day after launch. Currently I'm mincing through Uncharted 3, so I can get it back for MGS HD.
I'm a pretentious fraud. My taste isn't my own. In the pursuit of cool and identity I do what the magazines tell me.
Well yes, that would work if you only have the £5.99 package for one disk, but If you have anythig more than one disk you'll need to do more than that unless you want to clear everything off your list just for one game. You'll need a list for that but just apply all your allocations to it.
Can't see the sense in anything more, than one disk at a time. I don't know where you people find the time.
I'm a pretentious fraud. My taste isn't my own. In the pursuit of cool and identity I do what the magazines tell me.
I've had 3 at home for a week untouched this month but i've also got through another 12 or so I think.
Usually watch 2 a week, sometimes 1 at the weekend. I have a very shit social life.
Yeah, separate lists works for me. Put games in one list and films in another and only have stuff you really want in these lists. Keep these down to a maximum of 10 items at most and high priority them all.. Anything else goes in the 'maybe later' list. They'll send messages that you don't have enough stuff on your lists, but fuck 'em. If you give them too much choice then they will send you shit.
I find timing when you return stuff is important too. If you want new releases then there is no point in sending your old discs back on a Saturday. It has to be Wednesday, so the guys at Lovefilm are opening and processing our returns on the Thursday and hopefully popping all of the new releases out to you for the Friday or Saturday.
Currently sitting with Drive, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Perfect Sense. I think that was three new releases in one go so I must be doing something right.
Still, none of this guarantees anything. I hung onto Skyrim for about a month and a half and I can imagine folks will do the same with stuff like MW3 and Battlefield 3. I'm not sure why Forza 4 would be like that though. I got it on from Lovefilm release day anyway... :)
Me too.
This all reminded me that I was supposed to be getting some lists sorted out for the 2 disc unlimited streaming deal I'm on. Sadly Lovefilm site is running like a dog for me at the minute and taking minutes to load anything. I'm sure I'll forget all about it again within 5 mins of the first Gin hitting the system..
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I have 4 lists in total. Two of them are my wife's lists (one being a list of movies, the other tv series) and I have the other two lists (again, one being movies, the other tv series).
I don't have a list just for games because it's very rare that I rent them out. On this one occassion, I put Forza 4 in the tv list but was sent a tv series instead of the game. I didn't see the point in creating a brand new list just for one game.
And you're actually surprised that they don't send you any games...? :)
I had the same problem. You can never get a new game. So I trimmed the list down to 1 and returned my game just after the game I wanted came out. But as they didn't have that in, they switched the allocation and sent out one of my girlfriend's bullshit films instead.
I basically use it to play old games I wouldn't want to buy but want to play.
Move along now.
The first bit in bold isn't true. I get new release games pretty regularly on the day of release.
The second bit in bold is where you made a mistake. You just have to work the system properly. All of us people who can work the system are playing new release games on release day.
They have never switched allocations on me. I have a list for games (one disc) and a list for films (2 discs) and I have often left my game list with one or two titles on it that I really want. I have ended up with two film discs at home and the game list sitting on 'awaiting allocation' for over a week before one of the games that I wanted came back into stock.
I've always thought about doing one of these rental jobs but I only want it for games. Do I still have to get the expensive option to get games?
Tesco have started doing rentals now. I might have a browse sometime to see what the price differences are.
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You can name your lists anything you want, what it's called has no bearing on what they send you out.
It's getting frustrating now, the only newish game that I received pretty quickly was GoW 3 - everything else just never gets despatched.
I've been shafted once too many with trade-ins on games I've taken a punt on. (I paid £30 for EDF Insect Armageddon and traded it 2 days later for £8).
I'll never buy another single player game again as long as Love Film exists, unless it's a 200 hour RPG that I'll chip away at over a year or something.
Get the £5.99 option, 2 games per month. You'll always have something to play.
I'm a pretentious fraud. My taste isn't my own. In the pursuit of cool and identity I do what the magazines tell me.
Whoa. I don't want to be rude mate, but are you mentally challenged? Have you not figured out how Lovefilm works yet?
You are sitting with four lists of films and TV programmes and you have one disc allocated to each list, yes? Two for you and two for the missus? Then you add a game to your TV list (along with whatever TV shows you already have there) and you still hope that they pick the game from that list?
I'll make it really easy for you.
You have four velvet bags and 39 white beads and 1 black bead. Put 10 beads in each bag. Now pick a bead at random from each bag - no peeking!
What are your chances of picking the black bead?
Now take the same four bags but spread the white beads between 3 bags and put the one black bead in the last bag. Let us call that last bag 'THE BLACK BEAD BAG' to avoid any confusion.
Now pick a bead at random from each bag again. Did you get a black bead? Wow? Where was it?
I'm embarrassed that I had to explain how Lovefilm works by using beans. It's not rocket science. It's barely even arithmetic. When you remove your palm from your face then please come back here and thank me.
Hangover receding slowly and I now have 2 lists for my 2 disc rental with one disc allocated to each list. 9 games in one and 27 films in t'other with Rayman and Xenoblade currently on high priority. I'll bang Kingdoms of Amular up to high priority when it releases too.
Big hugz to all those who have managed to make me bother to actually get that sorted.
Remember timing is probably more important than priority. If you want Kingdoms of Amalur next week then you have to have the your game slot empty on Thursday so that you give the Lovefilm Selecto-matic a chance to send you it out for release day. All of the available copies will be gone by Friday and if it is anything like Skyrim then people will be hanging onto it for weeks.
I would even go as far as cutting your game list right back to one or two games for the thursday / friday period to improve your chances. They can't send you stuff that is not on an active list. That is why I have a 'maybe later' list that I shift things back and forward from instead of making things high and low priority.
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There's no need to be so condescending mate. I am 99% sure I understand how the Lovefilm system works.
Here is my list which occassionally includes games, on this occassion it is Forza 4:
Now, why do they always send me the "Low Priorty" instead of the "High Priorty". When I've had games such as Test Drive 2 in there on High Priorty, they have sent it out straight away. But if it's a relatively new title, I NEVER get sent it. Which is going back to the original point of this thread - is it worth me paying £20 a month to only be able to receive games which are old releases.
In the past, I did have ONE list completely dedicated to game titles, where I had approx 10 in the list. But I would never get anything relatively new, it would always be a really old title, regardless of the priorty I had set to each title.
Also, in the past I have set the list to JUST THE ONE TITLE that I want, and have still not been sent it. Instead, all I get is emails suggesting that I add more titles to the list.
So again, back to my original point - why is it very rare that for me to be sent out a video game which is relatively new? Or have I completely lost the plot here?